History 18

Question 1

case in which the Supreme Court

ended segregation in public schools

Answer 1

Brown vs Board of Education

Question 2

a young black minister that organized

a civil rights campaign

Answer 2

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 3

law that guaranteed voting, housing

and job rights for ethnic minorities

Answer 3

Civil Rights Act

Question 4

America’s first black cabinet member

and adviser to the President

Answer 4

Robert Weaver

Question 5

first black Supreme Court justice

Answer 5

Thurgood Marshall

Question 6

first Japanese American to serve in

the U.S. Congress

Answer 6

Daniel Inyoue

Question 7

first Japanese-American woman to

serve in the U.S. Congress

Answer 7

Patsy Mink

Question 8

began a project called the Interstate

Highway System

Answer 8

Dwight D Eisenhower

Question 9

first American to fly into space

Answer 9

Alan Sheperd

Question 10

first American to orbit the earth

Answer 10

John Glen

Question 11

first man to walk on the surface of

the moon

Answer 11

Neil Armstrong

Question 12

schoolteacher that died in the

Challenger explosion

Answer 12

Christa McAuliffe

Question 13

space shuttle that broke up and

burned on its reentry of the atmosphere

Answer 13

Columbia

Question 14

Leaders of the ________________________________ wanted to control the world by taking away freedom and spreading Communism

Answer 14

Soviet Union

Question 15

the conflict between the United States

and the Soviet Union

Answer 15

Cold War

Question 16

Communist dictator of Cuba

Answer 16

Fidel Castro

Question 17

when President Kennedy ordered the
United States Navy to form a blockade
Around the island of Cuba

Answer 17

Cuban Missle Crisis

Question 18

shot and killed while traveling in a

motorcade through Downtown Dallas

Answer 18

John F Kennedy

Question 19

when President Johnson made a major

commitment to putting out the “fires” of Communism in the Southeast Asian country of South Vietnam

Answer 19

Vietnam War

Question 20

withdrew American troops from Vietnam

Answer 20

Richard Nixon

Question 21

the first President ever to resign from office

Answer 21

Richard Nixon

Question 22

the Great Communicator

Answer 22

Ronald Reagen

Question 23

the idea of stopping Communism before it

could attack and enslave a country

Answer 23

Ronald Doctrine

Question 24

an island that Ronald Reagan agreed to

help liberate from Cuba and Communism

Answer 24

Grenada

Question 25

In 1954, the words “_________________________________” were added to the pledge.

Answer 25

Under God

Question 26

In the ________________________, the Supreme Court ruled that Bible reading and prayer were illegal in public schools.

Answer 26

1960

Question 27

the first female justice to serve | on the high court; replaced Thurgood Marshall

Answer 27

Sandra Oconner

Question 28

the dictator of Iraq, invaded the tiny country of Kuwait.

Answer 28

Sadam Hussein

Question 29

the shortest war our nation has ever fought | (2 ½ months); fought to free Kuwait from Iraq

Answer 29

Desert Storm

Question 30

worst terrorist attack | the United States has ever experienced; terrorists hijacked several passenger airliners

Answer 30

September 11th and 9-11

Question 31

President of the U.S. during “9-11”

Answer 31

George W. Bush

Question 32

The hijacked airplanes attacked the __________________________________ in New York and the ________________________________ in Washington, D.C. A fourth airplane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

Answer 32

Twin Towers and Pentagon

Question 33

leader of al Quaeda

Answer 33

Osama Bin Laden

Question 34

radical Islamic terrorist group responsible | for the “9-11” hijackings

Answer 34

Al Quaeda

Question 35

declared by President Bush; a war against | terrorists and any nation that helped them

Answer 35

War on Terror

Question 36

the purpose was to remove Saddam Hussein | from power and help the Iraqi people build a stable and free government; under leadership of President Bush

Answer 36

Iraqi Freedom

Question 37

hit New Orleans, Louisiana in 2005

Answer 37

Katrina

Question 38

a land too dry or too cold to grow many plants

Answer 38

Desert

Question 39

a desert area made fertile by the presence of water

Answer 39

Oasis

Question 40

a raised area of the earth’s surface that rises somewhat abruptly

Answer 40

Mountain

Question 41

a long row of mountains

Answer 41

Mountain Range

Question 42

a lowland between hills or mountains

Answer 42

Valley

Question 43

the level of the ocean waters

Answer 43

Sea Level

Question 44

elevation or height above sea level

Answer 44

Altitude